Text entry impossible on Mac OS 10.5.8 on 2.4.14, 2.6.0

[Keith Bellairs]

This problem has not been seen on my mac running gnucash 2.6 and os 10.9.

Keith

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*From:* "Jim DeLaHunt" <from.gnucash at jdlh.com>
*To:* "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
*Sent:* January 7, 2014 9:18 PM
*Subject:* Text entry impossible on Mac OS 10.5.8 on 2.4.14, 2.6.0

Hello, GnuCash folks:

Many thanks to the developers for this excellent software, and to all
the community members that have fleshed it out into this tool I rely
on so heavily.

I've been using GnuCash 2.4.13 successfully on Mac OS X 10.5.8. I
just tried downloading GnuCash 2.4.14 and 2.6.0. Each of them fails
with the same symptom:

Run GnuCash application (2.4.14 or 2.6.0)
Gnucash application starts.
Tip of the Day dialog appears. Click Close button. Disappears.
Account window appears.
Open any account (I use "Miscellaneous")
Click in Description field at bottom of register to enter a new transaction.

Observed behaviour:
No character appears in the Description field. A system beep sounds
at any key press.

Expected behaviour:
Characters appear in the Description field. No system beep.

Further information:
Running 2.6.0 from command line gets an error message about
"Trace/BPT trap", and app doesn't start at all.
Running 2.6.0 from command line with --debug gets error messages, but
I suspect not relevant ones. I'll file bug reports for the 2.4.14 and
the 2.6.0 behaviours, and put more details there.  Likewise, Trace
file has error message but I suspect not relevant ones.
Workaround in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721260 has no effect.
GnuCash 2.4.13 seems to still work as it always did.
GnuCash 2.6.0 about box says "built from rev 38a0d33+ on 2013-12-29".
Same symptoms with any text input field, e.g. changing the Notes
field of an Edit Account dialog.
Opening an empty file from the app and putting a transaction into a
new Account yields the same behaviour.

In other words, both version 2.4.14 and 2.6.0 are completely
impervious to useful work for me on Mac OS X 10.5.8.  I can't imagine
this is true for other Mac users, because I don't see gnucash-user
talk or bug reports about this. Surely if it were widespread, someone
else would have mentioned it before now. So I must have some unusual
problem.

I will file bug reports. But that takes time to get right, and I
wanted to see if anyone could offer some clues right away.

Thanks in advance for your help. Happy New Year to all.
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